Sunday, May 22, 2016

Winners! Red Dot Books & Readers Cup 2015-2016

With over 5,000 votes cast from 11 different international schools, the Singapore-wide book award 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in the four categories are:

Early Years

1st place: Polar Bear's Underwear

2nd place: Pig the Pug

3rd place: You Are (Not) Small

Younger Readers

1st place: Pigsticks and Harold and the Incredible Journey

2nd place: Quinny and Hopper

3rd place: Samurai vs. Ninja: The Battle for the Golden Egg

Older Readers

1st place: Wild Boy

2nd place: Masterminds

3rd place: The Fastest Boy in the World

Mature Readers

1st place: The Martian

2nd place: The Truth Commission

3rd place: A Time to Dance

Note that each school also has its own winners -- and participating schools are given those results to advertise as they will.

Last Thursday the Canadian International School - Lakeside hosted the Readers Cup competition, where teams from different schools compete in three categories -- Younger, Older, and Mature -- with questions based on a subset of this year's Red Dot books.

254 students from 14 schools in 46 teams participated in the Readers Cup. Congratulations to all! And many thanks to all our members who organized it.

Besides medals and trophies, individual prizes included a year's subscription to Epic Books, an online ebook library for children, as well as (physical) book tokens from A Closet Full of Books, the children's literature specialist book vendor here in Singapore run by Denise Tan, who attended the competition and handed out the prizes.

Books worth $3k are also donated to charity in honor of each of the three 1st place teams in the book quiz. The three winning teams will be notified early next year as to which local charity their $1000 worth of books from A Closetful of Books has been donated to and they will be given the opportunity for a photo session with the recipients.